Trains: Walking the Tracks

First of all: Don't ever walk on a railway track where there are active trains. Looking at a time table isn't enough - trains can be late and several trains don't follow time tables.

No trains will pass some time.

Over a hundred and twenty years ago, a railway company, MöToJ (Malmö-Tomelilla Järnväg) was founded. They operated passenger traffic until 1970 and freight traffic some more years. 

Formally, the line is still in use but in order to use it, track needs to be upgraded and renovated. Trafikverket (the Swedish Ministry for Transportation) has a paused project for that work. http://www.trafikverket.se/nara-dig/skane/projekt-i-skane-lan/simrishamn_malmo-simrishamnsbanan/. 

The railway track that goes from Östervärn, Malmö to Staffanstorp is deactivated. Most of the tracks are remaining but the tracks are removed at road intersections so it will take some time until trains are seen on that track.

My walk started from Lund and ended in Malmö. Five kilometers along non-functional tracks.

One afternoon after work, I walked home from my work, a distance of some 20 km. Five of them along Staffanstorpsbanan.

Nordanå railway station.

Along the trail, I saw some stations that I've missed adding. Nordanå is one of those stations.

It will take lots of work to make the track useful again, and I can understand that it is hard to motivate renovating the line from an economical viewpoint. Raising power connectors, groundworks and replacing tracks will be too expensive.

Neither passengers nor trains will accept the gaps between the rails.

Sege Station, another station that I forgot adding.

The railway enters the eastern parts of Malmö through a golf course.